Michael Ströder wrote: > Howard Chu wrote: >> John Lewis wrote: >>> What if I wanted to write a OpenLDAP backend for a systemd journal file >>> or Elasticsearch so I can present my logs as an LDAP subtree so I can >>> use my LDAP tools to filter my logs? Should I use back-shell for >>> prototyping? If so, what is the usual work flow? >> >> back-shell might work for rough prototyping. back-sock would be more reasonable these >> days. > > For prototyping a back-sock listener in Python you could give module slapdsock a try: > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/slapdsock > > Personally I use it for OATH-LDAP's bind listeners which seem to work fairly robust on > moderate load. But the release 0.5.2 should also work with all other request types. > > If you have a non-trivial deployment the sheer amount of log data can cause some > interesting performance issues. Indeed. Still it's an interesting idea; I've often thought about writing an ElasticSearch replacement on top of OpenLDAP. In a native backend it would be orders of magnitude faster than their stuff.